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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	according_a	judge_v	judgement_n	2,145	5	6.2663	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A97198	A vvarning-peece to the Commons, Commissioners, Army ge, nerall [sic], which now sit as judges on His Majesties sacred person, in the behalfe of the whole kingdome. Written by one that feares God, and honors his King, and prayeth for the peace of England	One that feares God, and honors his King.	1649 (1649)	Wing W935D; ESTC R204002	7,496	16

comply with the Grandees and Parliament drivers to keep them from these just things which now the Army so earnestly doe desire Why and with what face complaine you of us because we being your servants would rule and govern you when as you have been our masters and teachers in the art and accordingly under the pretence and name of Religion Justice and publike good have ridd your Masters the people of this Kingdome not only out of their fat but their flesh and almost off their leggs too And why may not we being so many thousands who have with our blood conquered all rule and reap the sweet as well as 3. or 400. of you have all the while injoyed the benefit of our travailes and hazards dayly raking Offices and heaping up riches to the impoverishing the Kingdome And to you we may add as to the whole people of this Land that as well may we be their rulers as you or any other sorts of the people for while they come to their ancient government let them be assured that they shall be rid one while by one another by another Faction and ever by that which by turnes shall get the power till in a short time all will and must fall into such confusion that we can expect no other rule or goverment but cutting of throats But if any seriously ask me why may not this State come to be governed by an Aristocracy as well as Venice and some parts of lower Germany I must answer that the question discovers so much ignorance in Politicall government that it deserves no answer yet in a word who is so ignorant that he knowes not besides the unspeakable danger of new modelling a State as of new altering the temper of an old crazy body that in this the body naturall and civill agree that that diet exercise physick government which preserves the one body may and will destroy the other and that as Suits fit not every body so neither are the tempers and dispositions of all men taught and guided by the same rule and power England within these 8. last yeares past hath payed deare for the learning her Latine tongue as Delinquent Malignant Sequester Secure Compound and I dare say two or three Greek words shal be more worth to it then all those and the like if they will understand and follow these which is no more then Homer read long ago 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 each State a rule and Government must have which the many destroy while the one doth save or if you beleeve not reason and truth because it comes from a Poet yet heare and beleeve God which is truth it selfe and who can neither deceive nor be deceived and he tells you Prov. 28.2 For the trangressions of a land many are the Princes thereof but by a man of understanding and knowledge the State shall be prolonged In a word O ye Commons nor murmure nor complain any longer against us for ruling you and the rest for God hath spoken it and it shall come to passe with what judgement ye judge ye shall be judged Math. 7.2 And with what measure ye mete it shall be measured to you again and Rom. 2.2 We are sure saith S. Paul That the judgement of God is according to truth to them which commit such things and v. 3. thinkest thou that doest such things that thou shalt escape the judgement of God But of all others ô ye Lords who are least to be pittied why and with what face complain ye of the Army for taking away your negative Voices in the upper House when as you who vote only for your selves yet after that at two severall times ye had voted and so sent it down to the House of Commons that ye could not with justice and honour remove the Bishops out of the Lords House yet after with injustice and dishonour ye voted them forth and from that House which was their proper free-hold by the just and lawfull prescription of above 8000. yeares to the third part of which time no Peer now in England can pretend and who sate and voted there not for themselves alone but for God the Church and as the Representative of all the Churchmen in England 2. Why and with what face complain ye of the Army for endeavouring to subject you to the Lawes of the Land equally with other Subjects who have been the principall Authors and Actors in destroying both the Lawes and the freedoms of all the Subjects in England 3. Why and with what face complain ye of this Army as Rebellious when as you your selves so lately in a storme or rather stroken with a Pannique feare like your selves that is like valiant Lords run away from a few boyes unarm'd and fled to this Army for help as to your Tutelar God 4. Why and with what face can ye complain of the Army for levelling you with other free-borne Subjects and bringing you down to the Commons when most of you have neither so much honesty nor true honour as most of the ordinary Gentlemen in England have no nor yet can plead anything of worth in your selves for sitting there in that high place more then either purchase of titular honour for money or Royall favour to some of your entituled Predecessors to whose vertues notwithstanding ye are as little of kin as perchance ye are rightly if all were known to their blood 5. Why and with what face complain ye of the Army for censuring and sentencing you who suffered the Commons to censure and sentence your own Members contrary to the Priviledges of your House and the Lawes of this Kingdome Heare the righteous Judge of all the world speak With what judgment ye judge ye shall be judged Math. 7.2 And with what measure ye mete it shal be measured to you again For it is written vengeance is mine I will repay saith the Lord. Rom. 12.19 And yet O ye Lords Commons and City why stand ye as men affrighted at our Remonstrances and Declarations know rather that though we are and would be accounted just and righteous yet we may and will act according to reason and prudence with which God hath inriched us above other sinners And therefore be assured that if ye shall repent and turne unto us and go our waies which are the waies of our Lord God we likewise will repent and turne and be mercifull unto you we will receive you into our favour and with us ye shall eat the good things of the land and be satisfied plentifully therewith But and if ye shall not speedily returne and joyne with us and to be commanded by us into whose hands the Lord of Hosts hath delivered you and all yours then know for a certain that what ever we have denounced shall come to passe that is you shall be scattred among the People and shall be devoured by wild beasts the mouth of the Lord of Hosts hath spoken it But O Army least that I seem partiall in pleading your cause